color change
 

Has anyone tried Vinyl Wrapping as a replacement for painting (good way to see color before investing in full and proper paint job in a few years)

photos would be great

anyone?

I did a Motorhome once. Wouldn’t do it again. I did it to save money but in the end it was about 75% of the painting quote and it peeled all the time and I was having to glue the peeled parts down.

Some people swear by it on a car because for about $3500 (an estimate I heard) you can change the color of your car temporarily. it doesn’t last forever though and the longer you leave it on the harder it is to come off and I’ve heard of cases where it damaged the original paint underneath when it was removed. The is all what I’ve heard so maybe some one will come in here with an opposing viewpoint whose actually had it done.

I’d paint but that’s just me
Good luck with whatever you decide
Tony

personally I'm not into the vinyl wrap craze!
I wrapped a few things one was a inclosed car trailer for a friend of mine. at the end of the project the cost saving was about 20% less than if we just repainted it.
the sad part is about 4 years later the vinyl faded and looks like crap now but only on one side and the front of the trailer were the sun hits it most from being parked. the problem is you can't buff it and bring a shin back up to vinyl. so my buddy started to remove it thinking we could just redo the side and front. after a week of trying to remove it every day after work he asked me if I could do it for him. the hell of removing 6" at a time of vinyl off a 28' trailer made him regret doing vinyl. we ended up removing all the vinyl off the trailer and we sanded the trailer down and painted it in enamel for the same cost as the vinyl material cost. it's been two years now and the trailer looks good still. the side that wasn't weathered came off in 3' pieces it was a little better then the side that was in the sun but still not fun.

I wrapped a BMW e36 race car I cleaned the car making sure it had no wax or grease about a year later I was looking at the car at an event and the vinyl was lifting some in a few places not bad the customer never cared but I know full well with my OCD the car was clean and there should be no reason for it to be lifting at all. was it lifting because it was only the 5 vinyl job I did? maybe ??? a year later he had a little crash and I needed to repair the QTR and replace the door. I ordered more of the same vinyl same everything and the match between the new vinyl and the old was like night and day. the vinyl was only 3 years old how could it be so different in color.
called the vinyl co that I get all our vinyl for to do wraps and lettering was given the song and dance BS. no blending vinyl so I also did the fender for him so at least the hole side of the car was the same. the good thing is the customer didn't care much about the color difference.

what bugs me is I stepped up to buy the highest quality vinyl the supplier offered with the best UV protection they had. what I think it was about the color difference is what's called dye lot coming off the production run at two different times.

to date I have wrapped about 30 plus things . I tend not to push the vinyl wrapping at all any longer so over the last few years I tend to only wrap one car a year.
some people like vinyl but personally I see no big pluses to it for most applications. we still use it for graphics on the race cars and for that it's not a bad way to go.

And there you have.
My thoughts exactly but my thoughts weren’t based on much factual evidence.
I think it was a fad who’s time has passed.
You opinion my differ but mine is that nothing beats a good paint job.
Tony